Getting ready for February

Mrs. Strombecker is unhappy in her kitchen. She hasn't made Valentine's cookies and hasn't gotten the kids valentines for school ready either... can you hum "Mother's little helper" by the Stones?

Don't worry, Mrs. S. we made ours and they are already eaten and forgotten! Maybe it is better to do it last minute...

Strombecker Dollhouse Bedroom Set

This is one of my favorite sets by the Strombecker Company. It is a children's nursery set. Notice the details of the colorful ball pulls. The duck rocker toy is cute too.

Here is the version from McKendry's Dollhouse history .

She dates it from 1938 with many more pictures that can be found at her website here:  http://www.mckendry.net/DOLLHOUSES/1930s-part_2.htm 

I forgot about this old picture on flickr. Thanks for reminding me, R. From 2009, C.

Louis Rich Dollhouse with Strombecker furniture

I love this tea cart.The dining room chairs and table and sideboard in the back are all the large Strombecker. The teapot and cup and saucer are vintage German painted gold.

The wallpaper came with the house and it was carefully applied.

The bedroom set has a lovely grain. The mirror is missing from the woman's chest set. The crib is vintage metal. The bedspread is a 1940's handkerchief.

The vintage bendy dolls have that stiff arm look.

The Girls' room, ah Strombecker!

This is a little strombecker set with red and yellow knobs. It originally came withis this ducky rocker, which Boyd loves!

CC and her kewpie doll. Look, Shale! It's the tiny doll houses we found in Alameda.

Cecile tells the younger children a story.

The signature ducky rocker.

Southwest 1950's

Well, it is our last week in the Hacienda House and then it is on to the Victorian Italienate representing the Gay Ninties in San Francisco.

This is the Hacienda House with Strombecker 1940 furniture and art by Rufino Tamayo.
Well, miniature copies of it.
Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican artist who painted in the 1950's. He was know for his combination of modernist style with traitonal Mexican themes.

Whose house is this? After Charlotta went to San Francisco for schooling, Carolena eventually joined her at her parents. She left the Hacienda to Abuela and her nieces and nephews.


Abluela loved the Hacienda and then passed it on to her family.
Wicker chairs are antique German Korbi.